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    ffdshow

    A DirectShow and Video for Windows codec (VFW)

    ffdshow is an advanced DirectShow filter and Video for Windows codec (VFW) codec that supports many audio and video formats. For example: H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, H.263, VP3, VP6, Theora, MJPEG, SVQ3, MP3, AC3, DTS, E-AC3, AAC, and Vorbis.
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    Downloads: 3,447 This Week
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    x264vfw
    x264vfw is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder (from FFmpeg/Libav project).
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    Downloads: 465 This Week
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    MPlayer for Win32/Win64

    MPlayer for Win32/Win64

    MPlayer Mencoder FFmpeg native win32/win64 builds

    Binary builds of MPlayer/MEncoder for win32/win64, FFmpeg MinGW related packages and MinGW-w64 toolchains
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    Downloads: 323 This Week
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    MMC is a commander-style media player for Windows, with native, hw accelerated video playing and translucent gui. Mpxplay is a console audio player for DOS and Win32 operating systems. x264vfw, x265vfw and xAV1vfw are video for windows encoder and decoder codecs, usefull with VirtualDub.
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    Downloads: 179 This Week
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    mplayer-for-windows

    mplayer-for-windows

    MPlayer & MEncoder Builds for Windows

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    Downloads: 178 This Week
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    YUV Player

    yuvplayer which supports planar/packed yuv

    RAW yuv player project is moved to GITHUB. Visit: https://github.com/Tee0125/yuvplayer Old description: Lightweight player for raw YUV/UYVY files.
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    Downloads: 79 This Week
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    avbuild

    ffmpeg build tool and prebuilt packages for all platforms

    iOS, android, raspberry pi, windows store, windows desktop, linux, macOS etc. Multiple toolchains support, include gcc, clang, vs2013, vs2015, vs2017. Hardware accelerated decoders and encoders support. Source code: https://github.com/wang-bin/avbuild
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    Downloads: 218 This Week
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    A fast closed captions extractor for MPEG and H264 files. Supports DVD, HDTV transport streams, Replay TV. Use this to create .srt (subtitles) files for your TV captures, have transcripts so you can edit subtitles, etc. This project has moved to its own domain: https://www.ccextractor.org Files in sourceforge are left for archival purposes, but new releases will be available from ccextractor.org.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Intel QuickSync Decoder

    A free decoder that utilizes the Intel QuickSync technology

    Abstracts the hassle of HW accelerated decoding in Intel's 2nd generation Core i3/i5/i7/Pentium/Celeron (SandyBridge) or newer Intel CPU/GPU using the Intel QuickSync technology. Started as an internal decoder within FFDShow. Can be easily ported to other DirectShow decoders. The Intel QuickSync decoder is now used within FFDShow, LAV video decoder and PotPlayer.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Picsart Enterprise Background Removal API for Stunning eCommerce Visuals

    Instantly remove the background from your images in just one click.

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    FFmpeg iOS

    FFmpeg libraries for iOS

    This is FFmpeg libraries compiled for iOS. If you want to build it yourself, see https://github.com/kewlbear/FFmpeg-iOS-build-script.
    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    ** Now on Github; https://github.com/aizvorski/h264bitstream ** libh264bitstream provides a complete set of functions to read and write video bitstreams conforming to the ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 AVC video standard.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Dolphin DVR Player

    Dolphin DVR Player

    One very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos

    Dolphin DVR Player is one very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos, NVR Videos, HVR videos and CCTV videos. Dolphin DVR Player is one professional H.264/H.265 video player and can play all H.264/H.265 video files smoothly. Dolphin DVR Player is also one NVR, HVR and CCTV video player, only if the video coding is H.264 or H265, the Dolphin DVR Player can detect the video coding type automatically.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    Linux Webstartup LITE

    Linux Webstartup LITE

    open source to everyone without phenomenal computer skills.

    Distro Linux based on Lubuntu 14.04 LTS for Mini and Lubuntu 12.04 LTS for Full with all codecs installed and openjdk-7 out of the box. Multilingual with Italian and English language by default and inside many improvements and tweaks. Updated on the 08/02/2015. Compatible 100% with Ubuntu's repository. Only 110 MB of Ram with boot completed! Follow us on Facebook and Google+ to keep you updated on future developments ... Available in versions Mini and Full 1.5 The mini version is now based on Lubuntu 14.04 LTS while the full is conservative resulting from the 12.04 LTS yet. Small outside but big inside, this underlying video guide shows an express install for everyone. http://youtu.be/16FiiB_K-hs ______________________________________________
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Video processing source code for algorithms and tools used in software media pipelines. The currently available source code is written in C++ with their associated libraries and DirectShow Filters. Filters include an H.264 encoder, H.264 decoder, H.264 source filter, RTSP sink and source filters, YUV source, RGB to YUV color conversion, croppers, scalers, video mixing/picture in picture filters, rotate filter, virtual mic, and many more. Code is released under BSD license with exception of H.264 codec related classes which are released under LGPL.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    BlackBelt CodecPack

    BlackBelt CodecPack

    A clean, lean CoDec Pack. FFDShow and LAV Combined.

    Contains support for popular formats. Works especially well with MediaPortal. LAV, ffdshow - why choose between when you can have both in one pack ! WMV/WMA, DivX, AVI, ASF, FLV, Ogg FLAC, HEV1, x264, x265 etc. NO SPYWARE, NO ADWARE, NO TOOLBARS, NO PLAYER - JUST PURE CODECS Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 - 32/64 bit.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    This is a program with one, specific purpose: to provide the ability to demux ALL of the streams in any number of Matroska container (mkv) files automatically.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    Prevent and Protect Your HTML5 Video, Music , Audio From Download Free

    Defa Protector is A Simple PHP and Wordpress Plugin To Protect and Prevent Video Save As From Browser and Some Video Grabber. There is 100% Guaranteed Protection and There might be some tradeoff but If you care about Digital Rights Management of Your Video and Music Content. This Project is for you. Defa Protector 6.7.1 Revamp Code For Better Performance To The Bone. We almost rewritten this project from scratch.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    x264 on win32 w/ DirecShow input and fully variable-framerate support.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    libsmacker

    libsmacker

    A C library for decoding .smk Smacker Video files

    libsmacker is a cross-platform C library which can be used for decoding Smacker Video files produced by RAD Game Tools. Smacker Video was the king of video middleware in the 1990s, and its 256-color compressed video format was used in over 2600 software titles. Please visit the Project Web site for detailed information.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    EncodeX

    MPEG-4 x264 Encoder GUI

    MPEG-4 MKV MP4 x264 ffmpeg Encoder GUI
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    FRONTEND for mencoder for Windows and Linux. Convert rmvb,avi,mp4,wmv, ogv, mkv, mov, mpg, vob,ogv, ogg, ogm etc To avi (divx5), xvid, dvd iso, h264 in a simple way. Required java runtime 6 and over. (On Linux is required mencoder, dvdauthor and mkisofs)
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    HAX264 is a Microsoft Windows DirectShow Video Transform Filter for decoding H264(AVC) video.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    ffmpeginstaller

    Simple Windows 32/64 installers for FFMpeg

    Windows XP/Vista/7/8 Installers for FFMpeg 32 and 64 bit. Shared libraries built by zeranoe.com, installers built by us. Script source in the SVN, library source at http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/ and http://www.ffmpeg.org.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    h264enc

    Advanced shell script for video encoding

    Advanced shell script for encoding DVDs, Blu-rays or video files to the H.264 format using the encoding utility MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front-end to MEncoder and various audio encoders and container muxers. h264enc is no longer actively developed. Please ty out: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffx264/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffhevc/
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    SimpleVideoEncoder

    Simple video encoder

    Simple video encoder is GUI for ffmpeg designed to encode video files. The application is designed so that the process of starting the encoding of one or more videofiles takes 2-3 clicks.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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